My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the future is even here.

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.